TELL CITY – The Indiana Department of Transportation announced this week that Indiana 66 in Spencer County will close. The road has been closed in the past due to a landslide 7.4 miles east of U.S. 231.

Contractor’s crews will begin repairing the slide area Monday at approximately 7 a.m. The road will remain closed through June 24. The project completion date is weather, material and equipment dependent.

TELL CITY – County Auditor Connie Berger reminds taxpayers to file for property-tax deductions and exemptions. The one-time filing of deductions or exemptions is still in effect unless your status has changed. Any deductions filed by Dec. 31 will be applied to taxes payable in 2012. Following is an explanation of what may qualify taxpayers as having a change in status:

TELL CITY – He wasn’t yet sure how the slowdown at a number of Toyota plants due to last month’s earthquake and tsunami would affect Waupaca, and subsequently the Perry County Port Authority, Stephen George said during a meeting of its board of directors April 14.

PERRY COUNTY – Compared to neighboring Spencer County, most Perry Countians experienced strong winds and heavy rains but little damage Tuesday night as a powerful line of storms passed overhead.

In Tell City, a large tree closed the 1200 block of 13th Street overnight. But city police reported little other damage. A caller to The News reported several downed trees north of Mount Pleasant along Indiana 66.

TELL CITY – Some stormwater issues facing Tell City have been around for years. The city’s board of public works and safety tackled a new one Monday: how to deal with a dramatic increase in stormwater flowing into a pump station in the 1100 block of 33rd Street.

A small audience that included workers, family members and Tell City Mayor Barbara Ewing watch Monday as a recently completed barge slides into the Ohio River for delivery to Brennan Marine of La Crosse, Wisc.

CANNELTON – When the section of River Road leading from Indiana 66 to the Port of Tell City is improved, Cannelton Mayor Smokey Graves said April 11, it will benefit Cannelton’s residents as well as the truckers it’s intended to serve.

As The News has reported previously, the planned improvement will allow trucks delivering goods to the port a quicker route than they have to take now.

PERRY COUNTY – Jim Carter is concerned that an agreement providing animal-control services for the county will expire April 30 and that funding for the function might disappear with it.

County Commissioner Tom Hauser said Wednesday a committee looking at animal-welfare issues is very close to making recommendations that could include fines to be imposed on people who abuse or neglect animals.

TELL CITY – A yard sale and bake sale will be held Friday and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at American Legion Post 213 in Tell City.
The American Legion Ladies Auxiliary will sponsor the sales. Proceeds are to be used locally to benefit veterans.
Anyone wishing to donate items may bring them to the American Legion Post 213 during the regular business hours on or before Thursday.